WW1 Centenary

The St Helier Roads Committee has considered how the
Parish should mark the centenary of the outbreak of the World War 1
and has agreed the following initiatives:

The St Helier Parks and Gardens Department, in conjunction with
the Parish's Community in Bloom Group, is theming various plantings
in the Parish's parks and gardens to mark the centenary;

The Parish is working with the States of Jersey Development
Company to produce a display of poppies on land at the waterfront
later this year;

A book, 'St Helier in the First World War', is being
commissioned from a local historian;

The Parish will invite applications to the St Helier Youth
Committee from young parishioners with relevant projects or travel
plans requiring financial assistance;

A St Helier war memorial will be constructed; more than 900 St
Helier parishioners lost their lives in the Great War, yet St
Helier is the only Island parish which does not have a First World
War memorial. The Roads Committee has identified a potential
site on the other side of Union Street where an electricity sub
station is situated surrounded by a wooden pergola. The Committee
intends to commission the design and, if possible, the construction
of the memorial locally, and is working up plans.

For more information about any of these projects, to make
suggestions or to get involved, please telephone the Constable of
St Helier on 811821 or email constable@posh.gov.je.